Appear(n.) Appearance.
Appear(v. i.) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
Appear(v. i.) To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.
Appear(v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
Appear(v. i.) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.
Appear(v. i.) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
Appearance(n.) The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
Appearance(n.) A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky.
Appearance(n.) Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien.
Appearance(n.) Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him.
Appearance(n.) The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.
Appearance(n.) Probability; likelihood.
Appearance(n.) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction.
Appeared(imp. & p. p.) of Appear
Appearer(n.) One who appears.
Appearing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appear
Appearingly(adv.) Apparently.
Words within appearance